Mary J De SilvaDepartment of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, WC1E 7HT, London, UKInt J Epidemiol 38:452-8. 2009

..Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide. The burden of TBI is greatest in low- and middle-income countries (LAMIC), yet little is known about patient outcomes in these settings...

The importance of early treatment with tranexamic acid in bleeding trauma patients: an exploratory analysis of the CRASH-2 randomised controlled trial

..Tranexamic acid significantly reduced all-cause mortality. Because tranexamic acid is thought to exert its effect through inhibition of fibrinolysis, we undertook exploratory analyses of its effect on death due to bleeding...

Avoidable mortality from giving tranexamic acid to bleeding trauma patients: an estimation based on WHO mortality data, a systematic literature review and data from the CRASH-2 trial

..Based on data from the CRASH-2 trial, global mortality data and a systematic literature review, we estimated the number of premature deaths that might be averted every year worldwide through the use of TXA...

..To investigate the attributes of service users associated with uptake of medical abortion (MA) versus manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) at public health facilities in Vietnam...

'Race' or place? Explaining ethnic variations in childhood pedestrian injury rates in London

Rebecca SteinbachDepartment of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, United KingdomHealth Place 16:34-42. 2010

..Ethnic differences in injury rates cannot be explained by minority ethnic status or area deprivation, but are likely to result from the complex ways in which ethnicity shapes local experiences of exposure to injury risk...

Use of the Oxford Handicap Scale at hospital discharge to predict Glasgow Outcome Scale at 6 months in patients with traumatic brain injury

Pablo PerelDepartment of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UKBMC Med Res Methodol 8:72. 2008

..The objectives of this study were to evaluate the association and predictive validity between a simple disability scale at hospital discharge, the Oxford Handicap Scale (OHS), and the GOS at 6 months among TBI patients...

Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: urban land transport

James WoodcockDepartment of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UKLancet 374:1930-43. 2009

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The road most travelled: the geographic distribution of road traffic injuries in England

James WoodcockLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UKLancet 370:1078-88. 2007

..There exists the potential for a global contraction and convergence in use of fossil-fuel energy for transport to benefit health and achieve sustainability...

Cost benefit analysis of 20 mph zones in London

Rebecca SteinbachDepartment of Social and Environmental Health Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UKInj Prev 19:211-3. 2013

..Simulations from our model suggest that the 'threshold of casualties' where NPVs become positive using a 10 year time horizon is 0.7 casualties per kilometre...

Perceptions of tap water temperatures, scald risk and prevention among parents and older people in social housing: a qualitative study

Mary Alison DurandFaculty of Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 15 17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH, UKBurns 38:585-90. 2012

..Evidence suggests that reducing tap water temperatures in social (public) housing through 'passive' means is effective in reducing risk. However, little is known about parents' or older people's perceptions of scald risk and prevention...

Cycling and the city: a case study of how gendered, ethnic and class identities can shape healthy transport choices

Rebecca SteinbachLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Public Health and Policy, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, United KingdomSoc Sci Med 72:1123-30. 2011

..While the identities of some professional (largely White) men and women could be bolstered by cycling, the aesthetic and symbolic goals of cycling were less appealing to those with other class, gendered and ethnic identities...

Predicting outcome after traumatic brain injury: practical prognostic models based on large cohort of international patients

Pablo PerelLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1B 3DPBMJ 336:425-9. 2008

..To develop and validate practical prognostic models for death at 14 days and for death or severe disability six months after traumatic brain injury...

Misadventures to patients during surgical and medical care in England and Wales: an analysis of deaths and hospital episodes

Katharine KerDepartment of Nutrition and Public Health Intervention Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UKJ R Soc Med 104:292-8. 2011

..Older patients appear to be at higher risk of experiencing and dying from misadventure. Interpretation of recent trends is limited by uncertainties regarding the consistency and coverage of coding...

..To evaluate three modes of questionnaire completion (online, mail, and telephone) and a choice group for a questionnaire survey with a sensitive topic...

Physical activity and depressive symptoms in adolescents: a prospective study

Catherine RothonCentre for Psychiatry, Queen Mary University of London, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Charterhouse Square, London, UKBMC Med 8:32. 2010

..There is a particular lack of evidence from longitudinal studies. This study examines the relationship between depression and physical activity using the Research with East London Adolescents: Community Health Survey (RELACHS)...

A retrospective case-control study of developmental and other outcomes in a cohort of Australian children conceived by intracytoplasmic sperm injection compared with a similar group in the United Kingdom

Alastair G SutcliffeDepartment of Child Health Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, United KingdomFertil Steril 79:512-6. 2003

..To investigate the possibility that children born after ICSI were at increased risk for neurodevelopmental delay...

Transport policy is food policy

Phil EdwardsLancet 371:1661. 2008

Trauma care research and the war on uncertainty

Ian RobertsBMJ 331:1094-6. 2005

Prognosis following head injury: a survey of doctors from developing and developed countries